Driving toward Modernity : : Cars and the Lives of the Middle Class in Contemporary China / / Jun Zhang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Zhang, Jun,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 5 b&w halftones, 2 b&w line drawings, 3 charts
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures and Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations and Note on Translation --; Introduction: A Mobile Lifestyle, A Middle Way of Living --; Prologue: From Official Privileges to Consumer Goods --; 1. Driving Alone Together: Sociality, Solidarity, and Status --; 2. Family Cars, Filial Consumer-Citizens: Becoming Properly Middle Class --; 3. The Emerging Middle Class and the Car Market: Mobilities and Trajectories --; 4. Car Crash, Class Encounter: Anxiety of Mobility --; 5. Bidding for a License Plate: The Importance of Being a Free and Proper Consumer --; 6. Parking: Contesting Space in Middle-Class Complexes --; Epilogue: Politics of Transformation --; Glossary --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501738418; 9783110651980; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610130; 9783110606485
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501738418
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jun Zhang.

In Driving toward Modernity, Jun Zhang ethnographically explores the entanglement between the rise of the automotive regime and emergence of the middle class in South China. Focusing on the Pearl River Delta, one of the nation's wealthiest regions, Zhang shows how private cars have shaped everyday middle-class sociality, solidarity, and subjectivity, and how the automotive regime has helped make the new middle classes of the PRC. By carefully analyzing how physical and social mobility intertwines, Driving toward Modernity paints a nuanced picture of modern Chinese life, comprising the continuity and rupture as well as the structure and agency of China's great transformation.